Go behind the scenes with our Developer Diary – featuring project updates, coding insights, challenges, and lessons learned from real development experiences.
My Point of View I've been working in the mobile space since 2000 at least, and so much of my mindset is definitely on how to design and build mobile apps. With Desktop Informant we've stepped into the more [...]
We are about near the end of our beta testing of Watch Informant - and its an exciting time! This sunday I fly to San Francisco and sit in line for 10 hours to get into the Apple Keynote [...]
I have always grown up with the idea of using an analog timepiece is far preferable to the digital. Aesthetically I have always preferred the analog: I love the round physicality of space that shows where I am in the [...]
One of the most difficult aspects of user interface design is figuring out how much content to put on the screen. There's a balance between showing enough useful at-a-glance information versus white space to make it more aesthetically pleasing [...]
Straight up - I'm not a watch guy. I gave up watches over twenty years ago when I got my first PDA - the Newton. I love the idea of watches and I love the design and aesthetics of watches [...]
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we've heard how Apple's review process [...]
Last year we did a survey that gave us a ton of insight into what we were doing well and what we were doing poorly. With those results we designed Informant 4 for iOS and Android, and also version 4.5 [...]
We started work on 4.55 in mid-December to continue optimizing, fixing, and all around polishing Informant for iOS up. 6 weeks later we were ready to submit it as 4.55 and we realized that we had done enough new [...]
OK so the screenshots are a bit of a tease, but I wanted to at least show you that yes it does exist. I'm not showing screenshots of the Focus view because its in another branch of our source-repo [...]
A long time ago I used to use a couple apps called Now Contact and Now Calendar on Mac OS 7/8/9. They were fantastic: fast, reliable, and their UI was great. When OS X came out they spent years [...]